James Wilson Celestial and Terrestrial Globes
1826 and 1831
1826 and 1831
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James Wilson Pair of American Federal Terrestrial and Celestial 13-Inch Globes Albany, 1826 (celestial) and New York 1831 (terrestrial) 19 inches high, 18 inches in diameter Sold, please inquire as to the availability of similar items. |
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A James Wilson globe is the cornerstone of any major collection. Each one of this fine pair of Wilson's
13-inch terrestrial and celestial globes has a brass meridian, horizon band with engraved paper calendar
and zodiac, and is raised on a four-legged stained maple stand with cross stretchers.
James Wilson (1763-1855), a Bradford, Vermont farmer and blacksmith by trade, is the father of American globe-making. Like his contemporary, the ornithologist and painter John Audubon (1785-1851) Wilson united art and science in the works he produced. Wilson was the first American to manufacture globes, having been inspired by European globes he saw at Dartmouth College. A self-taught geographer and engraver, he not only made the globe spheres but designed, engraved and printed the cartographic gores for them. Wilson began his business in Vermont in about 1810 and his sons expanded and moved it to Albany, New York, during the following decades. Terrestrial Cartouche: A NEW AMERICAN THIRTEEN INCH/ TERRESTRIAL GLOBE./ Exhibiting with the greatest possible Accuracy,/ THE POSITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL KNOWN/ PLACES OF THE EARTH;/ With the Tracks of various Circumnavigators together with/ New Discoveries and Political Alterations down to/ The present PERIOD: 1831/ BY J. WILSON & SONS ALBANY ST. N.Y./ S. Wood & Sons Agent, N. York. Oval Celestial Cartouche: A NEW/ AMERICAN/ CELESTIAL GLOBE/ containing the positions of nearly 5000/ Stars, Clusters, Nebulae & c. Carefully compil'd/ & laid down from the latest & most approv'd/ astronomical tables reduced to the present/ time/ BY J. WILSON & SONS./ 1826/ ALBANY. ST. N.Y./ |